Presented here is selected information from the 2005 fiscal-year 10-K reports of four companies. The four companies, in alphabetical order, are Caterpillar, Inc., a manufacturer of heavy machinery; Oracle Corporation, a company that develops software; Starbucks, a company that sells coffee products; and Tiffany & Company, a company that operates high-end jewelry and department stores. The data for the companies, presented in the order of the amount of their sales in millions of dollars, follow.

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Based on these financial data and your knowledge and assumptions about the nature of the businesses that the companies operate, determine which data relate to which companies. Write a memorandum explaining your decisions. Include a discussion of which ratios you used in your analysis, and show the computations of these ratios in yourmemorandum.

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S11799 $36,339 26,558 2,854 5,224 13,968 $2,395 6,369 11, Sales Cost of Goods Sold Net Earnings Inventory Accounts Receivable Total Assets 1,052 255 1,060 142 2,651 2,886 2,605 495 546 191 2,900 $2,777 S3,514 $20,687 S47,069